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Rogers Communications has received approval from the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to complete its purchase of Score Media.
Rogers on July 1 plans to incorporate The Score cable network and other holdings under its Sportsnet umbrella.

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Bell Canada has agreed to get consumer consent before tracking Internet activity for targeted advertising, though the company was not officially ordered to do so. The issue of whether Bell Canada, and other telecommunications companies, can track consumer use at all in Canada is being debated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is beginning a yearlong investigation of Internet service, looking to determine whether broadband access should be considered a "basic telecommunications service." The commission hasn't reviewed such matters in nearly four years.

AT&T and Rogers Wireless have hooked up on a roaming agreement that establishes a rate for the Canadian carrier's subscribers to pay for Long-Term Evolution service on AT&T's networks in the U.S., Rogers said Friday. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission had set Friday as the deadline for the country's telecoms to submit roaming rates and network-sharing deals with U.S. operators to the agency prior to its review of those fees to "assess [their] competitiveness" in the consumer market. Rogers said that it had set a C$7.99 daily roaming rate in May.

Cogeco Cable is challenging the authority of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to force cable providers to negotiate retransmission fees with broadcasters. A Cogeco spokesman said the company would argue the matter before the Federal Court of Appeal in Canada, where it will assert that "the CRTC has no authority to establish new intellectual property rights. That is the role of government and elected officials."

Canadian cable powerhouse Shaw Communications told the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission that the Canadian Television Fund, which is supposed to provide subsidies for independent producers, should be scrapped. Ken Stein, Shaw's senior vice president of regulatory and corporate affairs, said that "the CTF doesn't deliver programs that Canadians watch" and that the $262 million fund should be given back to cable and satellite companies.